The Internet Archive amazes me with its continual ability to provide the things I have long been seeking. The most recent case in point:
Lesbian Concentrate, a 1977 anthology of songs by and about lesbians, published by the feminist label Olivia Records. It was released partly as a reaction to Anita Bryant’s crazy crazytalk, and partly because the world can always use another lesbian anthology. Excuse me, lesbianthology. It’s one word now.
The reason I’d been looking so long and hard for it was to find the track by Sue Fink, titled “Leaping Lesbians”:
It’s sort of a lesbian funhouse horror song. My greatest wish in the world at this moment is that I could say there were other songs in this genre. To compensate, please memorize this one and sing it every chance you get: “We’re gonna please you, tease you, hypnotize and tightly squeeze you, we’re gonna get if you we can (Here come the lesbians)! Don’t go and try to fight it, run away or try to hide it, we want your lovin’, that’s our plan!”
Tags: album, internet archive, lesbian, the woman question
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:35 pm
[...] the artists on the Olivia Records compilation my classmate once brought to school. For some reason, this song has stuck in my mind, despite the fact that I hadn’t heard it in decades. (Yay, Sue Fink is [...]
November 16th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
I heard what must have been ” Leaping Lesbians” only once, years ago, on a show called “Amazon Nation,” or some such thing. I laughed myself sick, especially at the line ” There’s one behind you on the stairs.”. Good to know where it came from.
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